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Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

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Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Finally, a “trigger-warning” to readers: professional advance comment on this book has in the main been savage.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/normfinkelstein/status/1505526914114637827?s=20&t=80JuPZxnhN4DpfxFM4x8Dg

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword

PART I IDENTITY POLITICS AND CANCEL CULTURE

1 Confessions of a Crusty, Crotchety, Cantankerous, Contrarian, Communist Casualty of Cancel Culture
2 Kimberlé Crenshaw Goes on a Safari
3 Ta-Nehisi Coates Demands Reparations, Sort of
4 Robin DiAngelo Kicks Karen’s Butt
5 Ibram X. Kendi’s Woke Guide to Who’s Hot and Who’s Not
6 Barack Obama’s “Neat Trick”
Conclusion to Part I

PART II ACADEMIC FREEDOM

Prefatory Note

7 Who’s Afraid of Holocaust Denial?
8 Do Pervs and Pinkos, Ravers and Rabble-Rousers Have a Right to Teach?
Conclusion to Part II

Acknowledgments

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/table-of-contents/

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/advance-praise-from-famed-revolutionary-tariq-ali-of-verso-books/
Dear Norm:

Our three senior editors in London and NY, having read the book, are all in agreement that as written its incoherent and unpublishable. As a critique, it’s ineffective. Having read half of it, that is also my own view. It’s too ad hominem and too zany even for you. To be published it would have to be heavily edited or completely re-written. I don’t like writing this, but it is for your own good. We have been proud to publish you and have defended you strongly as has Colin both during his Verso days and later at OR Books. Please don’t throw a tantrum and get tempted by self-publishing. That would be very sad and ineffective. I would just re-think the project (whatever it is) and start afresh.

Many of your books are so methodical and precise—forensic in explaining an opponent’s thought and a devastating deconstruction– that we were all a bit taken aback by this one. It’s almost as if you’ve paralysed yourself. This does sometimes happen. Some successful authors once feted and acclaimed allow these vapours to lodge permanently in the brain and imagine that henceforth anything they write is automatically good. This is never the case. Please think again.

Tariq

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Comrade Finkelstein’s reply:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZGwHtGBZJU

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